Alix 2D3, part 2

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Pressing the ‘s’ key interrupts the boot. I set the CF card to LBA mode, although I’m not actually sure that made any difference.

 Welcome to minicom 2.3

OPTIONS: I18n 
Compiled on Aug 29 2008, 07:17:10.
Port /dev/ttyS0

               Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
                                                     
PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 848A CF Card                                 
Phys C/H/S 3936/16/32 Log C/H/S 984/64/32

BIOS setup:

(9) 9600 baud (2) 19200 baud *3* 38400 baud (5) 57600 baud (1) 115200 baud
*C* CHS mode (L) LBA mode  HDD wait (V) HDD slave (U) UDMA enable
(M) MFGPT workaround
(P) late PCI init
*R* Serial console enable 
(E) PXE boot enable 
(X) Xmodem upload 
(Q) Quit

Grub didn’t have the right configuration, so I swapped the CF card back over to my Fedora machine and used guestfish to make some quick edits to the grub configuration. (Note: grub2 has a confusingly different configuration from grub1). Also to /etc/inittab so I can get a login prompt on the serial console after boot.

# guestfish -i /dev/sdb

Welcome to guestfish, the libguestfs filesystem interactive shell for
editing virtual machine filesystems.

Type: 'help' for help with commands
      'quit' to quit the shell

><fs> ls /boot
System.map-2.6.32-trunk-486
config-2.6.32-trunk-486
grub
initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486
initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486.bak
vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-486
><fs> vi /boot/grub/
Display all 183 possibilities? (y or n) n
><fs> vi /boot/grub/grub.cfg
><fs> vi /etc/inittab

After that, it boots first time! There’s not a lot running …

rich@itx:~$ ps afx
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    2 ?        S      0:00 [kthreadd]
    3 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ksoftirqd/0]
    4 ?        S      0:00  \_ [watchdog/0]
    5 ?        S      0:00  \_ [events/0]
    6 ?        S      0:00  \_ [cpuset]
    7 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khelper]
    8 ?        S      0:00  \_ [netns]
    9 ?        S      0:00  \_ [async/mgr]
   10 ?        S      0:00  \_ [pm]
   11 ?        S      0:00  \_ [sync_supers]
   12 ?        S      0:00  \_ [bdi-default]
   13 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kintegrityd/0]
   14 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kblockd/0]
   15 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kseriod]
   16 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kondemand/0]
   17 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khungtaskd]
   18 ?        S      0:00  \_ [kswapd0]
   19 ?        SN     0:00  \_ [ksmd]
   20 ?        S      0:00  \_ [aio/0]
   21 ?        S      0:00  \_ [crypto/0]
  111 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ksuspend_usbd]
  112 ?        S      0:00  \_ [khubd]
  123 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ata/0]
  124 ?        S      0:00  \_ [ata_aux]
  612 ?        S      0:00  \_ [flush-3:0]
    1 ?        Ss     0:02 init [2]  
  206 ?        S<s    0:00 udevd --daemon
  245 ?        S<     0:00  \_ udevd --daemon
  246 ?        S<     0:00  \_ udevd --daemon
  256 ?        S<     0:00 /bin/sh -e /lib/udev/net.agent
 2110 ?        S<     0:00  \_ sleep 1
  255 ?        S<     0:00 /bin/sh -e /lib/udev/net.agent
 2116 ?        S<     0:00  \_ sleep 1
  257 ?        S<     0:00 /bin/sh -e /lib/udev/net.agent
 2113 ?        S<     0:00  \_ sleep 1
  538 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -c4
  564 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
  582 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
 1898 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ sshd: rich [priv]
 1936 ?        S      0:00      \_ sshd: rich@pts/0 
 1937 pts/0    Ss     0:00          \_ -bash
 2117 pts/0    R+     0:00              \_ ps afx
 1323 ttyS0    Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -L ttyS0 38400 vt100
rich@itx:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        255616      22240     233376          0       1412      12856
-/+ buffers/cache:       7972     247644
Swap:            0          0          0
rich@itx:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 5
model           : 10
model name      : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 498.110
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 sep pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips        : 996.22
clflush size    : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes   : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
rich@itx:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                 125M     0  125M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   44K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 125M  4.0K  125M   1% /dev/shm
rootfs                957M  458M  451M  51% /